I took this photo of my son at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. It's an unposed moment — a spontaneous scene he created upon encountering the giant spider on display. Although the image features my own child and was taken inside a museum, I consider it a form of street photography.

As I’ve explored in my reflections on urban ecologies, street photography isn’t limited to public streets or urban settings. According to Serge J-F. Levy, in an article he wrote for LensCulture about street photography, it is best understood as a process — a way of moving through space with attentiveness, responding to shifting shadows on a wall, an unexpected gesture in a crowd, the rhythm of footsteps echoing in a hallway, or the sudden alignment of forms in a fleeting instant, for example. It’s about staying open to the unanticipated — to whatever moment might quietly or dramatically reveal itself. Even if, later on, we begin to anticipate by mapping the environment.

In this sense, even though the setting is indoors and the subject is my son, the image can still align with what we understand as street photography — emerging from a moment of spontaneity and interaction between bodies and space.

References

(1)- Levy, S. J.-F. (n.d.). Street photography as process. LensCulture.